A Sorcerer in the Detective World

"What? Two more toes?!"

Officer Memu exclaimed, stood in front of the body and looked at it carefully, then stretched out his hand to press the hat on his head, turned to look at Demi and said: "Demi, are you done with the preliminary investigation and photography of the body?"

"...It's over." Demi glanced at the notebook in his hand, and then reported the report seriously:

"Officer Memu, I was just about to tell you. The deceased Donglong had four piles of fingers and toes around his upper body, 6 fingers on the left side of his head, 3 fingers on the right side of his head, and 1 finger on the left side of his chest. Fingers and 5 toes. There are 7 toes on the right side of the chest. There are 10 fingers in total and 12 toes. Among these toes, two toes were cut off for more than a day and were most likely missing from the scene of the previous victim. Those two..."

After Demi finished speaking, Officer Memu immediately waved his hand and said: "...Take those two toes away immediately and compare them with the body and DNA of the previous victim to confirm the identity!"

"Okay, Officer Megure." Demi responded with a salute, instructing the forensic personnel to collect the toes.

Conan, Hattori, and Uncle Mouri stood aside. Nanatsuki Koshizui pinched his chin and asked with squinted eyes: "Officer Megure, did the murderer take away two of the victim's toes two days ago?"

Although Koshimi Nanatsuki obtained some information related to the case through her own channels, she did not know about this matter.

"...Well...that's right." Officer Megure nodded.

Hattori Heiji approached Officer Megure and asked: "...Officer Megure, can you please tell us in detail about the previous cases? To be honest, the clues we got at the scene here are not not much……"

"Well..." Officer Megure groaned, and then summoned his men, "...Brother Takagi, please tell them about the three previous cases."

"I understand." Takagi Wataru responded, then took a folder from the uniformed policeman next to him, and said with a smile, "...Mr. Mori, Detective Koshisui, and classmate Yunwen, please come with me. I'll tell you."

Shu Yunwen and others responded, followed Takagi to the next room and sat down. Takagi also spread out the folder and spoke seriously:

"...About ten days ago, our Metropolitan Police Department received a fax, which was the beginning of this series of cases."

"...The content of the fax is: I am a scholar and poet who has traveled through thousands of years. I inherit the will of the twenty-eight stars. I will follow the guidance of the four stars to judge the evil Doumu Xie souls who have fallen into hell.

Until all sins are gone. Underneath this sentence is a stick figure lying with his hands spread out in a cross. On the left side of the stick figure's head, the right side of the head, the left side of the chest, and the right side of the chest are patterns similar to fingers, with the numbers respectively. It’s 5, 5, 4, 3…”

"Our police initially didn't understand what this fax meant when we received it. It wasn't until three days later that the first victim of this series of cases appeared..."

Takagi flipped through the folder and found a photo and a copy, spreading them out on the table in front of him:

"...This is the death scene of the first victim. The name of the first victim is Kashyū Kusanagi. He is forty-five years old and his occupation is an office worker. He was killed in his own home. Like Professor Dongryu, he had a chest He was stabbed to death with one stab. The body's hands were spread out in a cross shape, and the fingers and toes were cut off. They were placed on the left side of the head, the right side of the head, the left side of the chest, and the right side of the chest. The number was 1, 6, 3, 4, he put the extra fingers and toes on the table next to the body..."

"...In addition to the corpse, we also found a notice letter. The content on it is basically the same as the fax we received before, except that the word 'Dou Mu Xie' was changed to 'Jishui Leopard'..."

When Takagi said this, he paused for a moment, then turned to the back a little and continued:

"...Then two days later, a second victim appeared. His name was Liu Hanru, seventy-two years old, a professor at Mihua University. He was killed in the activity room of the classroom. The cause of his death was The main artery in the neck was severed, and the corpse's death state was similar to before. The fingers and steps were cut off, and the positions were the same as before, except that the number became 3, 5, 2, and 3, including 7 extra fingers. The toes were also placed on the table by the murderer..."

"... At the death scene of Chunliu Hanru, we also found a notice letter. The content was the same as before. The changes were still only three specific words. The rewritten content was 'Zhang Yuelu'..."

"After this, there is the third victim two days ago, Mr. Fengyue Zhizheng, 54 years old, his occupation is the owner of a supermarket, and he was killed in his own home."

Officer Takagi flipped through the folder and reached the designated location: "He was also killed by a knife in the chest. His death condition was the same as before. His fingers and toes were also cut off and arranged in numbers of 3, 3, 2, and 6. However, this time, two toes of the deceased were taken away by the murderer, and they should be the two toes found next to Professor Donglong just now..."

"...There is also the notice letter. This time the murderer left behind is 'Kang Jinlong'..."

"Cao Liujiaxiu, Chunliu Hanru, Fengyue Zhizheng, plus Donglong Shangping who was just killed, these are all the victims of this series of cases so far..."

After Takagi She finished speaking, the room was silent, and everyone was holding their chins and thinking.

Uncle Maoli frowned and said: "Dou Mu Xie, Ji Shui Leopard, Zhang Yue Lu, Kang Jin Long, Niu Jinniu... these sound familiar..."

"Uh..." Shu Yunwen, Conan, Hattori, and Nanatsuki Koshimizu were all a little speechless. They all turned to look at Uncle Maori, and then Shu Yunwen explained:

"...Mr. Maoli, Dou Mu Xie, Ji Shui Bao, Zhang Yue Lu, Kang Jin Long, and Niu Jin Niu are the names in the twenty-eight constellations. Among them, Kang Jin Long and Ji Shui Bao belong to the Eastern Green Dragon, Zhang Yue Lu belongs to the Southern Suzaku, and Dou Mu Xie , Ox Taurus belongs to Northern Xuanwu..."

By the way, Shu Yunwen is also a descendant of the ghost wizard, and he is quite familiar with the twenty-eight constellations.

Uncle Maoli scratched his head in embarrassment: "...Ah! So that's it..."

Conan curled his lips, then frowned and said: "...The prisoner has left a total of five notice letters so far, with the names of five of the twenty-eight constellations written on them. Could it be said that the prisoner followed the two Did the Eighteen Constellations come to kill people? His plan is to kill twenty-eight people?"

"It's not clear yet. However, the possibility of this is not high, right?" Hattori Heiji shook his head, with a serious smile on his face, "...if the murderer is really sick enough to pursue strange murders, nine times out of ten he will follow the instructions The order of the twenty-eight constellations starts from the horned wood dragon and ends with the blue water dragon. It is impossible for the northern black dragon to fight the wooden dragon and then the eastern green dragon and the water leopard... This would be too confusing!"

"...Moreover, among the four victims now, two of them are actually professors at Mihua University. To say this is a coincidence would be too much. It can be seen that all the victims are likely to be related to It's related to Mihua University, and they have other things in common..."

Koshizui Nanatsuki nodded: "...Yes, the last one is the four numbers that the murderer deliberately left with his fingers at the crime scene! His so-called instructions in the notice letter that he will "follow the guidance of the four stars" ', is that what you mean?"

"Maybe." Conan narrowed his eyes and pinched his chin, "... Judging from the four cases that have occurred now, the murderer pointed out the stars each time and left numbers made of four fingers and toes. These should be the reminders left by the murderer to indicate the target of the murder."

"Yes, this murderer is really bold!" Hattori Heiji also nodded seriously and smiled slightly:

"...Now, he left behind the star 'Niu Taurus' and the numbers 6, 3, 6, and 7 made up of fingers and toes at the death scene of Professor Donglong. It should be his next target, right?"

"...We must find the murderer quickly, and we must not let the murderer commit another crime and kill again!"